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PRACTICE TEST 3
Questions 1 - 3: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Mark your choice on the
answer sheet.
1. a. strike b. chill c. conflict d. single
2. a. game b. start c. rain d. play
3. a. element b. preservation c. emission d. gesture
Question 4 – 5: Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others by circling
the corresponding letter A, B, C or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
4. a. irrigate b. cosmetic c. ancestry d. delicate
5. a. eardrum b. exhaust c. discard d. inject
Questions 6 - 30: These are incomplete sentences. Choose one best option to complete each sentence
by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
6. By September next year I ______ here for ten years.
a. will be working b. work c. will have been working d. have been working
7. The first customer ______ this morning was quite rude.
a. dealing with b. with whom we dealt c. to deal with d. dealt with
8. Never before _____ such a beautiful waterfall.
a. that I have seen b. do I see c. have I seen d. I have seen
9. We each ______ success in life.
a. desire b. desire for c. desires d. desires for
10. Pupils should have their eyes ______ regularly.
a. tested b. to test c. test d. testing
11. My brother likes music very much. He ______ to music while working.
a. used to listen b. is used to listening c. is used to listen d. used to be listening
12. If you are agreeable ______ our proposal, we’ll go ahead.
a. with b. for c. about d. to
13. Paul’s drunkenness lost him the job. Unless he ______ so often, he ______ sacked.
a. drank; wouldn't be b. had drunk; wouldn't have been
c. hadn't drunk; would have been d. would drink; hadn't been

a. absorbed b. accessed c. gone d. poured
27. Why don’t you cut down all the ______ to make a path?
a. underground b. undercover c. undercurrent d. undergrowth
28. Her own mistakes made her very ______ of the faults of others.
a. tolerable b. tolerant c. tolerate d. tolerated
29. The thieves ran away when the burglar alarm ______
a. went off b. went out c. went on d. went by
30. We must ______ traffic coming from the right.
a. make use of b. take notice of c. give way to d. catch sight of
Question 31 - 35: Read the following passage carefully and then choose the best option to fit each
space by circling the letter A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet
Thanks giving is a national holiday in the United States which (31) ______ the bountiful
crop harvested by the Pilgrims in 1621 (32) ______a winter of starvation. It's a day of feasting and giving
thanks. This (33) _______of celebrating Thanksgiving has continued through the years. On November 26th,
1789, President George Washington proclaimed the First National Thanksgiving Day. In 1863 President
Lincoln revived the custom. Since then each president has (34)_______a Thanksgiving Day proclamation,
usually designating the fourth Thursday of November (35) _______the holiday.
31. a. organizes b. memorizes c. celebrates d. marks
32. a. as b. for c. with d. after
33. a. custom b. habit c. experience d. work
34. a. published b. issued c. gave d. produced
35. a. as b. like c. of d. for
Questions 36 - 40: Read the following passage and then choose the best answer to the questions by
circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.

Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
Ordinary houses are full of hazardous waste. The most important hazardous waste in the homes is
batteries. When you throw them out with your other garbage, they break open at the landfill. The poison inside
them moves through rain water and other liquids to the bottom of the landfill. Then it can pollute the natural
water in the ground. We should use rechargeable batteries. Another hazardous waste in homes is motor oil.

43. The fire spread through the building very quick and the firemen failed to put it out.
a b c d
44. Please help me tidy the room by throwing these invaluable things away.
a b c d
45. If we have a chance to travel abroad, Paris is the first city where we’d like to visit
a b c d
Questions 46 - 50 After each sentence from 48 to 50, there are four sentences marked A, B, C, and D.
Choose the sentence that has the same meaning as the original one by circling the corresponding
letter A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
46. No one in our club can speak English as fluently as Mai.
a. Mai speaks English more fluently than no one in our club
b. Mai is the worst English speaker in our club.
c. Mai speaks English as fluently as other people in our club
d. Mai speaks English the most fluently in our club
47. An old woman saw him break into the building.
a. He was seen to break into the building by an old woman
b. He was seen break into the building by an old woman
c. He was seen to have broken into the building by an old woman
d. He was seen to be broken into the building by an old woman
48. I haven’t gone to the cinema for ten years.
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a. It’s ten years I haven’t gone to the cinema b. It was ten years ago I went to the cinema
c. The last time I went to the cinema was ten years d. I last went to the cinema ten years ago
49. Mary said, “I am sure that you broke my vase, Jim”.
a. Mary said she knew that Jim broke her vase
b. Mary accused Jim of having broken her vase
c. Mary asked Jim of having broken her vase
d. Mary told Jim to break the vase
50. The girl jumped joyfully as soon as she heard the result.